Believe it or not, there was a time when I took a “normal” amount of pictures (probably a couple dozen a year), and didn’t even own a “real” camera.
At least I don’t remember ever using anything more than the little disposable boxes that you shot, turned into the photo counter, then waited a couple of days to see if you’d even gotten any good pictures.
I definitely didn’t consider myself a “photographer” when I was in my 20s. But looking back through some of these prints I recently found, I suppose I must have always had a decent eye for visualizing a scene worth capturing.
I even somehow managed to talk my way into the boom of a KC-135 to take pictures as we passed over New York City on my way back from Desert Storm.
Hmmm. Maybe I didn’t need to own a fancy camera or take a lot of picture to be a “photographer” back then. Besides the volume of pictures, I did notice one other big difference between now and then. Back when I just had a disposable point and shoot camera and had to pay for processing, I apparently didn’t take any pictures of birds or bugs. Still plenty of my kids, but no insects.
With my older kids, when I say “plenty of pictures” there are still just a few snapshots at various ages in the prints that we saved. Contrast this with my two younger girls who were born in the digital age, and have literally thousands of pictures from every year of their life in folders on my Google Photos.
I’m not sure which is better.
Would I even have found these 35 year old images that I’m now kind of admiring if they had been buried amongst thousands of others on a digital hard drive?
Til Next time,
Love this! Those are some great photos! Kind of makes me want to go back and look at some of my old ones. I've always been into photography to a certain degree. I had one of the little Kodak point and shoot cameras (with real film of course because I'm old) and I have a very old photo album full of pictures I took with that camera when I was a kid. I've told the hubs before that I'm so thankful we are now in a digital age with cameras because I take TONS of photos pretty much daily and I can't imagine going back to the days of film and having to pay for every picture I took. haha!
Wow, love the pic of the twin towers from above especially! You don't usually see that pov.